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I was startled in a delightful way to see a Baron of Beef ceremony at the Carpenters’ Hall Livery Dinner for the new Lord Mayor on 16 November 2016. Two strapping fellows from the kitchens bore a haunch of beef…
Some remarks made before the CityForum Strategy Round Table on 3 November 2016 at the Guildhall. Just before the publication of this ENISA report to which we contributed: “May I offer a warm welcome on behalf of the City of…
Remarks to: Welcoming Noerr Law Firm To London, Mansion House, 11 October 2016, by Alderman & Professor Michael Mainelli
EU Referendum – Strategy Thoughts À La Recherche Du Temps Trouvé For many months we have been discussing the EU Referendum. Since 24 June we have been discussing even more fervently the result, to “Leave”. To get the obvious question…
Published: Thursday, 23 June 2016 10:53 Long Finance Blog – The Pamphleteers Hopefully, Thursday, 23 June 2016 is a quiet, slow news day with everyone at the polls. Regular readers know that Pamphleteers is about the long-term. We have published…
This month we, the Trustees of Gresham College, hosted the Lord Mayor’s Gresham Event at Guildhall (he or she is our President!) … London – The Global Maritime Centre in a Changing World Thursday, 28 January 2016 – 6:00pm, Guildhall THE…
During the week of the Lord Mayor’s Show it was our turn to host the Hamburger Morgensprache back in London. We were delighted to be able to host them at two events. The first event was a Freedom Ceremony…
“Handelskammer Hamburg” is the Chamber of Commerce for Hamburg – Unlike British or American chambers, German Handelskammers have statutory powers and levy charges on businesses. Their compulsory status also encourages leading businesspeople to participate more earnestly in commerce and…
Here is a nice story about the ancient Barts Pathology lab helping advance modern medical science a teensy bit over the tragic Kawasaki disease: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kawasaki-disease-an-unknown-illness-with-no-definitive-medicaldiagnosis-and-no-known-cause–but-it-may-all-be-in-the-wind-10376403.html “Gee’s post-mortem examination findings, preserved in a single paragraph written in 1871, recorded signs of damage…
In these days of continuous assessment, how do you know where you stand? For folks in the City you could do worse than look into the Liber Albus 2015 (White Book 2015). So what am I to make of this…
